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Ch is a digraph in the Latin script.It is treated as a letter of its own in the Chamorro, Old Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Igbo, Uzbek, Quechua, Ladino, Guarani, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Ukrainian Latynka, and Belarusian Łacinka alphabets.
kn is used in English to write the word-initial sound /n/ (formerly pronounced /kn/) in some words of Germanic origin, such as knee and knife. It is used in Yélî Dnye for nasally released /kŋ/. kp is used as a letter in some African languages, where it represents a voiceless labial-velar plosive /k͡p/. kr is used in Xhosa for /kxʼ/.
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), French painter; Vincenzo Cabianca (1827–1902), Italian painter; W. Lindsay Cable (1900–1949), Scottish artist and illustrator; Francis Cadell (1883–1937), Scottish painter
A historiated initial (the letter O) from an illuminated manuscript. In a written or published work, an initial [a] is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is ultimately derived from the Latin initiālis, which means of the beginning.
In the form Charles, the initial spelling ch-corresponds to the palatalization of the Latin group ca-to [tʃa] in Central Old French and the final -s to the former subjective case (cas sujet) of masculine names in Old French like in Giles or James (< Latin -us, see Spanish/ Portuguese Carlos).
Post-nominal letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, office, or honour.. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters.
.ch is the country code top-level domain for Switzerland in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Made available in 1987, [ 2 ] only two years after .com , it is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services .
Italian orthography uses ch to indicate a hard pronunciation before e or i , analogous to English using k (as in kill and keep) and qu (as in mosquito and queue). In addition to hard and soft c , the digraph sc represents /ʃ/ or, if between vowels, /ʃʃ/ when followed by e or i (as in scena or sciarpa with /ʃ/ , crescendo and fascia with ...